Celebrity Winemakers: The Wines Of Francis Ford Coppola
Thursday, September 30th, 2010There’s seems to be a strange trend at the moment for linking big-name celebrities with different wine varieties (and this includes both alive and dead celebrities). Just in the last ten years we’ve been treated to wines from Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, even Elvis Presley (and a whole host of others).
These celebrities however, although associating their name with the bottles, have nothing to do with the actual production of the wine. That’s where Francis Ford Coppola comes in to take the crown of King of the celebrity winemakers.
Not only does Coppola have a hand in the creation of the wine, he takes it particularly seriously. Coppola bought the Inglenook estate (or at least the majority of it) over 20 years ago, using the money from the success of The Godfather. Since this acquisition in 75, the Napa Valley region has become known as one of the most reputable wine producers in the area, with much of the thanks for that falling to Coppola himself.
If you’re looking to try a bottle of Coppola’s wine, go for the wonderfully packaged Niebaum-Coppola collection which are not only phenomenally drinkable, but are so unique they would make fantastic wine gifts.
All of the wines in the collection are wonderfully drinkable, with each one offering its own individual collection of tastes. The red wines in the Coppola collection are rich, deep, full of fruit and will remind you of the top French wines. The crisp, bright white wines put you more in mind of Spanish wine, especially the more expensive wines available.
Coppola has probably the become the best known celebrity winemaker, although he’s by no means the only one to have made it into wine production. Other well-known winemakers include Shane Warne, Greg Norman and Gerard Depardieu, who makes a range of superb wines with renowned winemaker Alain Paret.
Get yourself on the net and have a search for yourself and you should quickly find some superb wines produced by worldwide celebrities. If you’re going to try and sample just one of the celebrity ranges, you should definitely go for something from the Neibaum-Coppola range.